Minn. AG Keith Ellison: Conservatives Are Trying to Bring Back Jim Crow and Slavery

ELLISON: "By the way, it's so good that you mention this, because if you want to look at — because it’s common to say now, and I think we’re mostly right, that we’re living in unprecedented times. I think mostly we are right about that. But you will hear people say, 'Well, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. We went through McCarthyism, we went through Jim Crow, which is fascism for black people, we've been through these pockets.' And I would say, 'You know what, if you were white, I’m talking about if you were white as a sheep, but you wanted to be a person of your own mind, you would experience abuse and ostracism and violation of your rights under the slaveocracy and under Jim Crow, right?' I mean, these we’re not — one of the things that Jim Crow did is they wouldn’t allow newspapers from abolitionists, I mean during slavery days. If you were caught with an abolitionist newspaper, you might get lynched if you were even a white person, right?"

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Minn. AG Keith Ellison: Conservatives Are Trying to Bring Back Jim Crow and Slavery‘There was no freedom of thought for anyone during these periods of time’News & PoliticsEXCERPT:ELLISON: "By the way, it's so good that you mention this, because if you want to look at — because it’s common to say now, and I think we’re mostly right, that we’re living in unprecedented times. I think mostly we are right about that. But you will hear people say, 'Well, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute. We went through McCarthyism, we went through Jim Crow, which is fascism for black people, we've been through these pockets.' And I would say, 'You know what, if you were white, I’m talking about if you were white as a sheep, but you wanted to be a person of your own mind, you would experience abuse and ostracism and violation of your rights under the slaveocracy and under Jim Crow, right?' I mean, these we’re not — one of the things that Jim Crow did is they wouldn’t allow newspapers from abolitionists, I mean during slavery days. If you were caught with an abolitionist newspaper, you might get lynched if you were even a white person, right?"Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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